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And when it comes to romantic-comedies, the record is worse: of 100 rom-coms released in the past six years, only five films have broken $100 million at the box office.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2015

There are no romantic-comedies in the literature of antiquity, and very few in modern literature since Shakspere’s death.

From How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest by Kipling, Rudyard